An edition of Push (1996)

Push

a novel

1st ed.

by , , , and

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An edition of Push (1996)

Push

a novel

1st ed.

by , , , and

  • ★★★ ★ 3.9 (19 ratings)
  • 1,014 Want to read
  • 42 Currently reading
  • 35 Have read

A self-portrait of a black teenage girl, big, fat, unloved, with a father who rapes her and a jealous mother who screams abuse. For Precious, as she is called, hope appears when a courageous teacher, a young black woman, bullies, cajoles and inspires her to learn to read. By the author of American Dreams.

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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
Language
English
Pages
141

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Child abuse Pregnant schoolgirls Domestic fiction Bildungsromans Fiction Incest African American girls African Americans Teenage mothers Literacy Fiction, coming of age African americans, fiction New york (n.y.), fiction Fiction, family life Fiction, african american, urban nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2009-05-31 New York Times bestseller Fiction, african american & black, urban & street lit Fiction, family life, general collectionID:EanesChallenge collectionID:AlpineChallenge collectionID:ConroeChallenge collectionID:bannedbooks African americans--fiction Teenage mothers--fiction African american girls--fiction Child abuse--fiction Literacy--fiction Incest--fiction Ps3569.a63 p87 2009 813/.54

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Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

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April 29, 1997, Vintage
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Cover of: Push
Push: a novel
1996, Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3569.A63 P87 1996, PS3569.A63P87 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
141 p. ;
Number of pages
141

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL979236M
ISBN 10
0679446265
LCCN
96016516
OCLC/WorldCat
34557216
LibraryThing
124712
Goodreads
975515

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL47292W

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Work Description

Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as Precious learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it her own for the first time

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